Archive for July 8th, 2009

Freddie and Kathryn Hubert of Ellicott City attended the Michael Jackson memorial service in Los Angeles Nearly 31-million people tuned into Tuesday’s memorial service for Michael Jackson, but only about 17,000 were lucky enough to get tickets to be inside the Staples Center in Los Angeles for the …

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President Barack Obama’s visit to Moscow earlier this week with his family laid the groundwork for future progress in U.S.-Russian relations. It differed from the approach of former U.S. leaders, including former President George W. Bush, who focused on developing a personal relationship with then …

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LOS ANGELES — Officials say a power outage is causing traffic jams across the west side of Los Angeles and leaving people trapped in elevators. Fire Department spokesman Lauren deRosier said a transformer blew up at a Department of Water and Power facility at about 7:47 p.m. Wednesday. He says that …

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – If former NFL star Steve McNair ’s girlfriend was upset about being arrested for drunken driving two days before she killed him and herself, she didn’t let it show. McNair was a passenger in Sahel Kazemi’s car when Nashville police arrested her a week ago. Police released video …

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L’AQUILA, ITALY: The G8 agreed on Wednesday to try to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius and cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent, but it failed to persuade China and India to join a bid to halve world emissions. With only five months until a new UN climate pact is due to be agreed …

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Former NFL star Steve McNair was shot dead in his sleep last week by a 20-year-old girlfriend distraught about mounting financial problems and her belief that he was seeing someone else, police said Wednesday. Investigators may never know why Kazemi shot McNair four times as he dozed on a sofa early …

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L’AQUILA, Italy (AP) — Targeting global warming, President Barack Obama and other leaders of the world’s richest industrial countries pledged Wednesday to seek dramatic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 to slow dangerous climate change. Setting a marker for success, they agreed for the …

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SUN VALLEY, Idaho — Google Inc. is hoping to gain greater control over how personal computers work by developing a free operating system. The move is an attack on Microsoft Corp.’s long-dominant Windows franchise. The new operating system will be based on Google’s 9-month-old Web browser, Chrome …

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Former NFL star Steve McNair was shot dead in his sleep last week by a 20-year-old girlfriend distraught about mounting financial problems and her belief that he was seeing someone else, police said Wednesday. Investigators may never know why Kazemi shot McNair four times as he dozed on a sofa early …

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L’AQUILA, Italy (AP) — Targeting global warming, President Barack Obama and other leaders of the world’s richest industrial countries pledged Wednesday to seek dramatic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 to slow dangerous climate change. Setting a marker for success, they agreed for the …

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